More than 50,000 disabled people have had specially adapted cars and other vehicles taken away as they move over to a controversial new disability benefit, according to the charity that
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Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale has called on Ruth Davidson to confront the Prime Minister on the UK Government’s controversial “rape clause”. The policy came into force last week as
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Thousands of disabled people who suffer from progressively worsening conditions will face reassessment for their benefits this year, new figures show. Campaigners and MPs are now demanding changes to stop
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Major changes to the benefits system coming into force on Thursday will condemn hundreds of thousands more children to poverty, charities have warned. The Children’s Society called on the Government
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The tax credits renewal process has been a “catastrophic failure” which caused unnecessary hardship and distress to people, a damning Commons report has found. The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) insisted
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More than 7,500 families have had their housing benefit cut to just 50p a week as a result of the Government’s benefits cap, according to new figures. Official figures obtained
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Actor Idris Elba has attacked government cuts to housing benefits for 18-21-year-olds. The 44-year-old Luther star hit out at the moves which came into effect in April and stop out-of-work
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Theresa May’s Government has an “issue” over benefits for disabled people, Jeremy Corbyn has suggested in an outspoken attack. In a pre-Budget intervention, the Labour leader said ministers need to
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A coalition of disability charities has issued a plea to Theresa May to rethink planned cuts to a key benefit which will see new claimants lose out on £1,500 a
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Around 160,000 disabled people will be stripped of benefits entitlements after the Government shifted the goalposts to deal with legal rulings, according to Labour. A tribunal said personal independence payments
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